Improvement in water coolers and filters



a, PETERSON. -v la ter cool e rs, and Filters.

Patented Ian. [2," 1'875.

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UNITED STAT-Es ATEN'T V ALBERT, H. PETERSON, or PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

lMPROVE'llilE'NTl-N'WA-TER COOL E RS ANlJ FILTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.158,649, dated January12, 1875; application filed; I July 5, 1873. v

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, ALBERT H. PETERSON,

of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylv'ania, haveinvented an Improved Combined Water- Filter and Cooler,

' of which the following is a specification:

The filter and cooler consists of .aaiertical chamber of iron orothersuitably strong and durable material, which is divided by ahorizontal sieve diaphragm into two chambers. The lower chamber receivesthe water from the pipe leadin g from the main, which, in seeking itslevel, filters through a composition of sand and charcoal into the upperchamber,-

by the sieve diaphragm B into the upper and lower chambers O D, boltedtogether at the flanges a. The upper chamber contains the ice-receptacleE. The "water from the main enters the'chamber D by the inlet-pipe F. Inseekin g its level it rises through the openings in the sieve B, andfilters in its passage through the composition of sand and-charcoal G.It

fills the chamber 0, and completely surrounds the vessel E. 'Thecoldness of the ice -H is .impartedhy the walls of itscontaining-vesselE to the water in the chamber 0, whereby its temperature is reduced, andit rendered'fit for drinking purposes. When being used, it is drawn offthrough the pipe Let the top. A draw-01f cock, 'J, removes theice-drippings from the ice-chamber. The cock K at the bottom of thelower chamber l lis the means whereby the whole vessel A is cleaned.

I claim as may invention-- The filter and cooler A, composed of'thechambers D, the sieve B, and the ice-vessel E, substautiall y as and forthe purpose shown and described. f v 4 In testimony whereof I hereuntosign my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. ALBERT H. PETERSON.

Witnesses:

EDMUND P. COCHRAN, FRANCIS D. PASTORIUS.

